Company:

Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
is a national-level pharmaceutical
company which focuses on
innovative pharmaceutical
research and development based
on independently developed
intellectual property rights and has
integrated development, production
and marketing capabilities. From
its establishment in 2003, Betta
Pharmaceuticals has focused on
new medical research to bring relief
to suffers of malignant tumors,
diabetes, cardiovascular diseases
and other diseases, and made its
debut on the capital markets in November 2016. The company has
11 sales offices around the country
and has a sales team of close to
400 people and more than 800
employees.

Challenge:

As Betta Pharmaceuticals’ output
value increased relentlessly in recent
years, the traditional “piecemeal”
style of data management is
no longer able to satisfy the
data protection and restoration
requirements for large amounts of
data. The pharmaceutical industry
also has stringent demands for
data backup and restoration.
Betta Pharmaceuticals has already
established a new data center and
requires a flexible, reliable and
scalable infrastructure. However,
traditional backup solutions cannot
satisfy Betta Pharmaceuticals’
Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

Results:

Implements real always-on Availability

Centralized management of backup for all virtual environments

The Business Challenge

Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. is a national-level pharmaceutical company
which focuses on innovative pharmaceutical research and development based
on independently developed intellectual property rights and has integrated
development, production and marketing capabilities. From its establishment in
2003, Betta Pharmaceuticals has focused on new medical research to bring relief to
suffers of malignant tumors, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and other diseases
and made its debut on the capital markets in November 2016.

As Betta Pharmaceuticals’ output value increased relentlessly in recent years, the
traditional “piecemeal” style of data management was no longer able to satisfy
the data protection and restoration requirements for large amounts of data.
The pharmaceutical industry also has stringent demands for data backup and
restoration. Betta Pharmaceuticals has already established a new data center and
requires a flexible, reliable and scalable infrastructure. However, traditional backup
solutions cannot satisfy Betta Pharmaceuticals’ Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
In addition, data backup solutions based on traditional virtual environments lack
the performance optimizations of cloud computing and cannot handle the rapidly
increasing data load. Its insufficiencies are evident in the obvious “strain” it shows
when handling large amounts of data.

“A series of tests and experiments must be conducted first prior to medicine
production and some of the production testing and experiment related equipment
must be connected to an information system for processing. If anything goes
wrong in the system in terms of information security, or if experiment data cannot
be uploaded, or if data is incomplete or lost, then the final experiment data will
be incorrect and will lead to problems in the medicine produced which can lead
to even worse consequences”. Betta Pharmaceuticals’ IT manager, WANG Chao,
is responsible for choosing the IT solution and is familiar with the requirements
of the core departments of the company. He has chosen terminal data backup,
maintenance, and information security as Betta Pharmaceuticals’ main focus.

The Veeam Solution

After many studies and examinations, Betta Pharmaceuticals finally selected
Veeam® Backup & Replication™ Enterprise Plus out of the many options for its
backup solution. WANG Chao indicated: “Betta Pharmaceuticals is currently in a
phase of rapid development and the demand for various applications is increasing
rapidly. Traditional fixed data backup and restoration models are non-scalable and
do not meet the development requirements of our business. Veeam and Cisco’s
hyper-converged architecture provides a solution that has good flexibility, scalability
and is easy to use. Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshot greatly improves backup
speeds and as a result, reduces the effects of high workloads during backups (VM).
Performance improvement and capacity expansion can be implemented by simply
adding nodes which reduces costs and creates great commercial value for the
company.”

During the service docking with Betta Pharmaceuticals, this solution exhibited
convenience, Availability and high security and has earned the praise of key staff
from the IT department. In particular, they praised the virtual machine and file
recovery functions which directly improved Betta Pharmaceuticals operating
efficiency.

In terms of virtual machine recovery, Veeam’s vPower technology was used which
is capable of running virtual machines directly from compressed and deduplicated
backup files from backup storage devices.In terms of storage devices in the
operating environment, virtual machines can be initiated from the backup files. If
a virtual machine experiences a fault, it can be restarted on any host within a few
short minutes.

Currently, almost all of Betta Pharmaceuticals’ services are deployed on the system
in a virtualized manner, including the virtual desktop for the whole company. Veeam
is responsible for all backup operations in the virtual environment for all service
systems, application systems and for all virtual desktop data.

Furthermore, Veeam has partnered with Cisco to integrate its solution with Cisco
hyper-converged architecture to achieve efficiency, flexibility and to implement the
computation power of Cisco UCS . This also ensures “24.7.365” Availability of data in
many cloud environments with good flexibility and scalability that is easy to use.

The well-respected file-level recovery function is based on image backup and virtual
machines can be quickly recovered on any host without the need to rebuild the
system from scratch. From the outset, Veeam provides backup recovery based on
images.In fact, Veeam supports 19 different file systems, significantly ahead of other
backup solutions.

Furthermore, Veeam also provides virtual laboratory technology to create isolated
environments, where virtual machines can run without the risks associated with
running in the production environment.

The Results

Implements real always-on Availability
Availability has three meanings: Timely recovery during service interruption
(within half an hour to an hour); good time sensitivity and speedy problem
solving; and lastly, guarantee of the integrity of mailbox, ERP and other data
from various service systems.

Centralized management of backup for all virtual environments
Veeam’s Availability solution includes optimization functions aimed at cloud
computing and implements centralized management of backup for service
applications and for all virtual desktop data. Furthermore, the solution has
less moving parts, therefore it is easier for the client to upgrade. Veeam clients
usually upgrade to the newest version of VMware a year before others in the
industry and will not experience the problem faced by other companies where
old tools may not be compatible with new virtual environments.
“From the perspective of economic benefits, effective marketing data,
including development data, are priceless assets. The prevention of its loss is
actually a benefit”. WANG Chao said. Compared to traditional backup tools,
Veeam Backup & Replication is easy to use and maintain and the backup and
restoration operations are easy to understand and operate and do not require
deployment or maintenance of proxy. The backup infrastructure can also
expand or be reconfigured according to demand without additional costs or
fees. It also does not incur any fees on the central management component.